Manager, Special Projects (2024-433-CS)

at  WoodGreen Community Services

Toronto, ON M4J 1L2, Canada -

Start DateExpiry DateSalaryPosted OnExperienceSkillsTelecommuteSponsor Visa
Immediate19 Nov, 2024USD 75000 Annual08 Nov, 20241 year(s) or aboveGood communication skillsNoNo
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Description:

Responsibilities:

  • Leads end to end delivery of large-scale, significant or cross-functional projects, from project planning and initiation through to launch and stabilization.
  • Work collaboratively with business units and leadership team to define project objectives, milestones, and measures of success.
  • Maintain strong communication with project stakeholders, including senior leadership, to ensure alignment throughout project.
  • On occasion, validates project viability, leading discovery and developing key artifacts that demonstrate ROI and project scope, and facilitates approval or go/no-go decision-making with the senior team.
  • Identifies and escalates risks in projects, and develops recommendations for path forward.
  • Prepares and facilitates regular Steering Committee meetings, providing appropriate inputs and expertise to support decision-making at the senior leadership level.
  • Documents key project decisions, including consequences, and holds senior leadership and project sponsors accountable to decisions.
  • Manages new and existing vendor outreach and relationships, including procurement processes, vendor negotiation, contracting and payment.
  • Develops and maintains key project artifacts including charters, project plans, stakeholder assessments, budgets, process maps, status updates, risk assessments, and other as required by the project.
  • On occasion, supports the development of business cases, TORs, MOUs, EOI or RFP responses, or other key documents as requested by the senior leadership team.
  • Collaborates with Finance team to prepare project budgets and manage project spend.
  • Manages project inter-dependencies, delegating tasks and work to colleagues across the organization, to ensure appropriate sequencing of different workstreams and successful advancement of the project.
  • Develops project close reports, measuring success of project, including ROI, and documenting lessons learned and best practices


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:1.0Max:6.0 year(s)

Information Technology/IT

Site Engineering / Project Management

Other

Graduate

Business administration project management or a related area

Proficient

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Toronto, ON M4J 1L2, Canada